The Sun. — London, England, 1810-11-26 00:00:00

Mitis to 'be Teleasea 45tie'iitte, 'shall consist of, ;)ersons detained in France in 1803. \; A RTIIdE. - E -6. The British and French Governtnents'undertake to commuwcate to their respeaive allies; the - terms • (if this Convention, 4nd to use their influence to engage them them.to actedelliereto. AnTtCl 4 ll 7. ABritish,Commissary ,and a French Commissary ' shall Ste appointed to reside, the first at Paris, .the I:ittcr - at London, to superintend the detailss — and execution of thig 'Convent ion. ARTICLE 8. A separate Collimation shall be as soon as pos- Bible entered into between Great Britain and Fran Ce-, to regul.ite the exchange of prisoners of war, who -may be hereafter triage on either side, with a view of alleviating, as far as may be praclicAlt, the evils and misfortunes attendant on a state of warfare. PORTUGUESE P;IPERS; LISBON, Nov. 9. An Account of the present State of-the FR EN cti A RMY,. as given by some Portuguese, who were mane Prisoners by the Enemy, and have been lately exchanged. The French army consists, at the present time, of from 40,000 50,000 men, including the.sick.-,- ,The troops carry with fhem'a prodigious quantity of baggage, which occupies a league in extent, and -which they do not convey in caissons, of which they have but few, but in sledges and other .kinds of car riages, drawn by cattle. In this serf ice are employ-) ed .about 6000 men, :non-combatants. A• great , number of the beasts' of burden has died, and the. loss has been tr4quenly supplied by horses taken from the cavalry. The waggons arefor the Most part in a deplprable state, being composed, as it were, of planksi - loosely joined together. Some, of them carry ammunition, some protisions, some (Ali-, eel's and regimental baggage, and others cl..)athing, and plundered property,•&c. • • The, French cavalry may consist of from 9 to 10,000 nren. It iserot easy to calcukee the loss this elescripiion of force has sustained, as iliey are much extended up the banks of the Tagus; but it is certain that , a considerable riember has died, that some hate been withdiawn for the service ofthe.arrillery, aed that a great number of the deserters belonged to the cavalry, -Sec. With resped to their present state, some squadrons are very weak, and others arestill iu a good condition for service: - - The &agoutis are the best, and appear most richly dressed, wearing cordons and medals of gold, and `also purses con taining plundered morrey attached to their girdles. The following is:the manner in which the French troops have subsisted —When they. arrived, there was still a considerable quantity of corn and miler ) , Which could neither be carried away nor destroyed"; there was also a great reamber of .steeqp, and abun dance of grapes and fruits in the fields, but all the mills were destroyed, and could not-be re-built, ex cept a small number; se that bread could be .procur ed only for the Officers. "Upon this account they lived on animal tie.' without restraint, and without economy, receiving rations of meat for tP.e defi- Glancy of bread. They - also consumedT only the pieces of the best quality, so that: by the end ot Oc tober, the period when the exchange of ,prisouers took place, there remained but a few sheep or oxen, and many French soldiers had elready begun to eat horse and ass flesh. • The grapes and frees lad in a considerable degree supplied their priva tions, but these were also totally consumed by the end of October. ALAI L.S. AAR LVED—z Dublin, 4 Waterford. D E Vv'aterfortl. PRICE OF STOCKS • THIS DAY Ar TWELVE G'DLOCK. Consols - 41 THE SUN. SOLE6I QUIS' lllCdkl 1 , .11.51:1q AUDEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1810. Windsor Ciistle, Nov. ".4, Eight 1;:. , M. " His Maserry has been in a .sound. sleep for the last six hours. • , Whither Castle, Nov. 25. " -Tis MAJESTY'S has passed a quiet night, with some more sleep, and is better this morning." Windsor Castle, Nov. 25, Eight o'Clock, P, M. His MAJESTY is not quite 50 IA ell this evening as he was in the morning. 6 , Windsor Castle, Nov. 26. His MAJESTY. has had very li►tle sleep in the night, but is not worse this' morning. We stated on Saturday that Dispatches had been received from Lord WELLINGTON to the 12th in stant, and that they did; toot contain any intelligence vt . importance. ,It:.appears by the extract from them, which waS`published in the Gazette of Saw day, that our statement was perfe6lly correct.. The enemy reconnoitred Almantes on the-sth, and it is stated in; some private Letters, thot they had made three 'attacks uprin it, in each of whieli.they had been repulsed with We this day . lay before our Readers an intercept ed letter from IVIAssENA Xo BERTHIER, giving an ac °int of the battle of BUsace. , We cannot 'pledge ourselves for the authenticity of this document, he, cause we do not know the authority on which it ems. it, however has the appearance of authen -I;Quy. The person on whom these dispatches were 'itinnd,haa law with ' - him a pnper'catitaining a 'Cer tain -number of' questions which MASSNNA con. : jectnred might be pin to him by BUONPARTE liwrirrra, together with the atftvwers which 'he was totive. We are, tve confen, at a 10 - is to guess the objC& of these extra instfuaions to the bearer of these dispatches., Every point mention ed in these questions and answers Might, and in deed aught to have been, inserted in the dispatches. If they had been so inserted, and the Courier had received private instructions, in order that his an_ suers tut ,contradia the, dispitches, every thing woyid be perfeetliclear i bat at present we are not Without some doubts 'upon the s'ubjeet. We had not loom on Satu'rday to make any observations Upon the most unfounded, and, we. must ''add, the most impudent assertions which appealed' itt the Moviteur, respecting , the negotiations fur an exchange of prisoheis. We stated some time ago, upon authority on which me placed the 'utmost reliance; the unrea,ottAb:e de mands made, by' the French Govertnnent upon the subjea of the Exchange—demands whi(h appear to have 'beat tnaue rather with a view of breakirig off all, negotiation, than with any hope of their being acceded to; and Oir are this tray milled to lay before our readers Ghat 'We hairy every reason to believe is the list Piojet presented by our. Go vernment to France, which will fit' the same tithe' prove the anxious desire of his Majesty's•Alioisters to effe6l. an Exchange of Prisoners, and the shame -less falsehood of the 'statement 'maie in' the Muni: tear: We do not conceive it 'necessary to make.any apo logy to Mr. APKENzts for extracting the vulgar scurrility with which he was attacked in the Muni, leur, because the abuse 'of that i'ver must always be an honour to an Englishman it is almost the best proof that can be given, that he possesses the principles of a good subject, and the manners of a gentleman. • - • We have received some 'more Frencli Papers, but their contents are not particularly interesting. Buo- INAPARTE has annexed the Valais to France, and the reason which he has condescended to assign for tbij ad of atrocity, is, that- 7 -4 is convenient.;-- , These Papers also contain some details respe6ting our convoy in the Baltic, which we. hope will turn out to be greatly exagerated. We this morning received Cadiz Papers to the 1 1 t h inst. Every thing remains as quiet there as it has done for some months past ; now and then a few shoi and shells are exchanged, otherwise there is no appearance of a siege. , . Letters from Madrid state, that bands of patriotic Spaniards continue to advance close to that Capital, attacking convoys' intercepting .dispatches, and keeping poor JOSEPH in a constant state of alum. It seems that he does mot cxpe& to reside long in. his Capiital, for he con tinues to send off the valUable movables and pidures towards France. This morning Mr. GALE JoNEs received sentence in the Court of King's Bench, for the Libel on Lord CASTLEREAH. He Was • ordered to be con• fined twelve calendar months in Coldbath-fields, and to find security for his good behaviour, himself in 5001. and two sureties in 2501. each. The persons convieted of the riots at the Liverpool Theatre also received sentence ; two of them were ordered to be confined in Lancaster Goal for twelve months, two for three months, and one for . two months. It will he seen, by the following notice, posted this morning at LLOYD'S, how truly laudable are the exertions of the Committee of- that House, for the proteElion of our Trade against the enemy's pri-. , vateers ; and when we consider the great number of them that arc daily on' the Oast, such informa tion to4he ‘ Mastets of Vessels was much warned, and we are glad to observe it emanate from whence it does. We recommend the Ma§ter of every Vessel, before he sails - Irotn , _England, to provide himself with a copy of the Notice : _ • riloyivs, November 26, 1810. " All Masters of vessels passing up`' and down Channel, are recommended by the Committee of this House, on the appearance of an eneiny's croizer in the t day or night, to make signals ehher by firing guns, burning false lights„ or letting off rockets, by which it is hoped from the number if his Ma jesty's ships cruizing in the Chonnel for the pro teCtion of the trade, many vessels will be re-taken, if not preserved from capture. It is also recom mended to all Masters of vessels to attend partteu larly to the signals, at the respective slgnal s!ations on the Coast, as explained underneath : ' , For "an eOrny's.trigaie in - frigates." One ball above the flag. • " For " the enemy's small cruizers." Two. balls above the flag. For " an enemy's 'ship or vessel close under the land." Three balls above the flag. I , N.B. No signals made at the signal posts (but those above mentioned) are to be attended to by merchant vessels. Sir JoHri pocr.wpartt has arrived at Portsmouth from Newfoupdland. NAVAL 1c E WS. ruir.srouTri, Nov. '23.- Arrived the Hero, GOOD ALL, from Sunderiand. ' Sailed the hind, Revenue cutter on a cruize. Nov. 24.—Arri1'edLA evening. the French ketch'l privatier La Gleneuse, of 14 guns, and a coMple ment of 90 men, of. and from St. Makes, tom whence she had been six weeks, without making any capture; she was 'fallen in with and chased se- - yeral hours on the 20th inst. by his Majesty's ship- Nortlfti mberland, of 74 guns, Capt. HOTHAM, but escaped by superior sailing ; the latter ship on the 22ki following discovered her again,'and the privateer being to leeward, (vas captured after a short chase. This is the, same vessel that attacked the ship Ame rica, Capt. Coci3urti, on her ‘oyage from . Quebec to this port, sonic days since off Cape Clear, which she beat off in a heavy gale. of wind, after an action of three, hours, if which Capt. COLBUIO- was wounded iu die ann. ,The Gleneuse is a very fine vessel of her class, about 200 tons burthen,. and : a g6qd :Übe ll'alsing' ham, packet ) Gait. ROBERTS*, sails for Lisbou•the niornent the wind is lair. Put back yesterday by contrary winds' his Majes ty's ship Go:4finch i pt 12 guns, Capt. ADDERLEY, with the RwierittansPort . , C.lpt. SWAN ; bound ,to. Corunna.. . Arrived the sloop Star ; of Scilly, E. MAY, Mas-. ter; frOniCadiz and , LtsbOn3 , lett t'he former place ou' the ifjur Or.tobL•r, and the lay icy') the Is r t'Of No yenitmr, with a cargo of logwood, bound toLotidon, put in.here by contrary winds, and last Scilly, where she arrived on the 18th instant, left Lisbon with a convoy,'frotn which she parted some days after. Airived.the schooner Brothers, SQUARO, Master, from Newfoundland, with fish and oil, torthis port; sided on the 25th Oct. in coiripany with a fleet, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Antelope, of 60 guns,: Adintral Sir I. DUVIMORTHp. daptain . M‘LEon, which are passed up Channel. , Went into harbour hisiViajesty's ship Iris ) of 36 guns, Capt. SHOKTLAND., Arfived his Majesty's ship Helicon, of l 0 guns, Capt. HOP.k./NS O ftoui a cruize in the Channel the Francis Freeling ,packet, -.Cart. BELL, trout FA 'mouth and his Majesty's ship Foxhound, from the Westward. • Sailed his Majesty's ships Argo and Amelia fur Purlollotall. PoRTsLiouTH, Nov. 2.5.---Dispatches 'were this morning landed from the Lady L'airingion (extra ship) from India : when she lett India every thing was tranquil, the Isle of France had riot fallen,' the garrison it seems were very desponding since the capture of the Isle of Bourbon ; the Lady Carring ton lett the Cape on the 17(11 September, and Saint Helena seveh weeks since. , His Majesty's ship Gatateal. takes convoy for and the Meditarranean; and, his Majesty's ship Derzvent to Cadiz. The Nonpareil schooner, Lieut. BRAY, arrived yesterday from Newfoundland : she sailed, from St. John's on the 25,th ult. in company with the Ante lope, And Mackarel schooner, with 21 sail 'wider convoy; the Mackarel parted company on the 30th and the Nonpareil 9a Ist inst. in bad weather, leav ing ,the Antelope and, convoy in lat . . 44, 27. lung. '44. 29. ; the Antelope is arrived this day with Vice Ad miral Sir JOUN T: lltickwoßTH on board, but note of the convoy liave'as yet made t4ir appearance. Came in this day his Majesty's ship Argo from Plymouth ; and his . Majesty's ships Amelia 'and Wolverine, the former fiom Poi tngal, 'and the latter from Cadiz. • X,' TORBAY, Nov. 22.—Hi'Majesty's ship . i/nteloN, Rear-Admiral 'Sir Joair DocKtvotcru, has arrived from Newfouridland, sailed frorn - thence 25t11 ult. FAI,IIQUTU, Nov. n3.---Put in here tne imspatck packet, With the mails for Surinam Princess Elizabetk with ditto, for Lisbon 3 - /Vocton, ditto, for Cadiz; and the EXpress with ditto, for Jarniaca; all for Plymouth. One of Jur/o'es Aides-de-Camp, disguised as a Spanish cnuntry!nan, has been seized by the armed peasantry upon the frontiers of Portugal, wad seta to Lisbon. r He was endeavouring, under cover of this dis guise, to_ reach Alnieida, from whence he was to make his way to Paris. There were found upon him two interestiqg papers i r —the one, MA SSE WA'S' official report .of the battle of. Busaco, addressed to' BERTH IEII ; the other containpig a string •of , tiODS, which it was expeded - wouldpeput to him by BUONAPARTE, tOgrt4er with the answers which` the Aid.de-Camp was to.make to these presiined inquires. These two papers appear to have been written at Coimbra, seven days after the The Officer who was arrested, having been Put under examination as a spy, declared, that his ver halinstrudions were to requite from BUONAPARM a reinforceir.ent of 40,000 14V11. hVT ) E.RCEPTED DISP;II'Cif OF IIf,4SSEIV4' No. I. FRENCEACOtiNTOF THEBATTLE OF Bu - A COIMBRA, OCT.-- s 1 the M'onseignur,—We set out tot our march on / , 30 16th instant, in orde r t o ente r Portugal, 0 5 I, - 1 :.0y already informed your .Higline,S. On the t ail to d we arrived at yise u ; aft er. pissing through ve r Y, roads. We were ohlied - to halt theie for_five " a 4 3 :1 in order to give time for the park I.f artilrerY:i the baggage, to come up, and be polo ord er, f have had the h o n o ur o f acqu aiking you hoot ‘', s o I left the latter lace on the 04th. -On the tni-00 day of my march I arrived in fr o nt of this pasty of Busacii.,.wbich was' occupied by • the aidedglish and Portuguese armies. I r ec onnoitere d ci t 6d position the nest 'morning at ,day:brcf.!k. dire 00 an attack on the, left by the seerind corps,in ,ce.ntre by the 'sixth ; the eighth corps rern:n ne , in reserve. The position'-is certainly the • s tronge 3l lte all Portugal.. Gen era l R egn i er , h owever , Otti d i v ,h top of the ridge, • and was be.gintrin4 to c st '' L of himsalt there, when General • Hill, 'w 4th a oo r i jfi s 20,000 men, attacked in else column the Ir' °l who, worn out by fatigue, were beginume to torn) 03 the ridge ort he mounrains,: and drove illem WO, do i, This retreat, supported by a . go ..d reser ve, , s 3 te al ecuted good arder,.and the se co nd corps roo t " 0. its first position.' In th e centre were ,the of LoisOn and Marchand. The first Mide, an ott' on ; the tight of the roadwhi c h l ea d s t o the . c0"`,,,.. of Ilusaco, and the, other on the left. Genera l son, being obliged t o climb Avry stee p jpo,uri tej t i , to regain,thegreat road, reathed it utter grea r ,`' e . ",e ertionS ; but he had n o t suttrientliore to torn to 0 in close column, ;inch() cetabl z sl ) when English columns came- up iii close order,,a od , 'meted by, a numer o u s artille.r3.;charged this th" s ' ho ()"ge4 It I " . r`itr'n; General Marchand, " was.to-suppovt thia attack, look uir posilloll, W) the enemy. The Engtish did ,not dare ( 0 vance above threehundred toises from battle. The iletnaindi...4 of the day was I),tl i ` I Skirmishing.' - ' ;,; Having attentively , recon n o i tre d t hi s ll(''':d. c) u) I,6iich Lord - W e llin g t on wou l i l not have vellt n/ ; e i , e x• occupy, if he had not, lik e me, cousiderej % e t! tremel deo y strolig; my plan was - immediately v; on, and I end, avowed to obtain by my menco' ov a an advantage which w ou ld li a , t co;t too mil)" °„rti men. 'I sent (JUL reconn o i t ri ng part i es o f , at e and.cavalry towards the right .and I,:ft, to 0 011 1 . ro the country, and to, keep the enemy in doubt ds the course of my movinenis. A oa From the intellig ence I rece i ve d , I decide tnrning the -English army by My right. Th e tion of the bridge of Murcella, which the _fi had fortified, and 'on which he could tpake " fl ( 1' hi; movement by the ridge of Periacosa, lavonre-ori Mealts,of Moving thithe r hi s w h o l e f o r ce Ur le3'-005 two hours; while the roa d o f S ar d ao cross4l4 ‘tt Col de Caranuela, brought me upon Boaiolvo, 11 Vied open and fertile co un tr y . Th: s moveme nt till. o r the left of the enemy, and gave me power o f - s oli nceuvring his flank': At sip' at night on the I quitted the positi on o f 'Moira, antilll3l.clot upon. noialvo. The e i g h t h corps, which ha-Aonl Suffered, fOrmed the advanced guard, the bath c • the main body, and the rwcond the 'rear roord" tpi my wounded fellowed on the carriages of the t ij and beasts of burthen. 0 0 ' The enemy, perceiving after 1-11(11-light 0114 " 3E nccuvre on his left plac e d a strong .rea r gu 3l v ,O l . Busaco, and marched 'in great .disorder in s i n llft columns towards Coimbra, after having blow' , ,all his amtnunirion, , and b urnt hi s maga zines. On the Ist I arrived at C o i m b ra the eheT ir er , o left all his cavalry, with some regiMents of i"'` h port which we charged. .He retired from thence Lo rd Condeixa. On the 2d I sent my advanced t e rill towards the village,, and the enemy- W 35 ' 9 O .l'Y Brit en from it it 'is now at Iledinha. commanded 'all the roads which fall -into th e road of Lisbon, and. General Montbrun has Oir uppn'Figuera. „tre 3l.4 ,Lord :Welliugton, with th e a lli e d a rm y, is V ing, upon Lisboa. H e gives out that it IS '1 tention todisplue with gas all the positions. der e . I march in one body, and Use evert • e- • 01 your to iiiductr_ him to give bn!ti , .; mils/ ;ad destroying him, or forcing him to re-embar k ' n \ allied army is estimated' at from IR) to 7 0, 0 0 1 ,0 4 including_ 2&,000 B r i t i s h. The enemy 0-n ll- , tr Y destroys evei y thi n g as h e ev , ituates the cot v . Threes ' he the inhab i t an t s to abandon their Coimbra, a town of 2 1 0,000 inhabitants, is, j r tdt - Wetind no provisions ; rl> army is subsisted O° , O W; an corn, and tne vegetables which we find-rea l3 ' g in the ground. W o rd W e lli ngton , no t di l " ; :1;‘,' -wait, for us. in the op en country, , en d ea vours ' i vy. .str°Y every thing which might subsist ou r %,0; The inhabitants of the towns and villages 31- ;;,, miserable; they arewompelled to serve, on Pc, s a v death. In short, n o rieriod history furn l " - example of such barbarity. 3 0( 1 Oa: loss in killed and wounded amounti‘,'°,l men,including 'a great many 'olficers• Simon of Loison's divi s i o n, was d ang erously " ed, and left behind in the rank? 'of the eueulY; Oc' l '' neral Graindorge i s d ea d o f . hi s woun ds. : - ) tio s neral of Division Merle is wo un d e d as 0 1 4i4 ‘ Generals . of Brigade Foix and lthucune ; not be able to serve again for sour. time; Ta l t e 6:4 1 loriels,of ,the 26th regiment of the line, of , (1 , 1 ,0e 0 ' . and . ?2d light infantry,' are kill e d, an d severf', - rs to wounded. There are many vacancies at 0 the different corps, which must'be hued ur• e .' The Anglo-Portcgu e s e arm y 'acknowkdgi have lost 4000 men, One-h a lt of theth I leave behind me ow si c k an d vt outiu" . itnbra, where I am tunifyink two cot ivent 3 _! m only leave a sall number at trOops' to del el ' u The best defence I c a n gi ve t h em is to bej English, and twee them to re-embark. e ; 1.4 `, General ilegnier deferves th e highest pot'.: k et , has concluded bitnst.-li like an able and esP e 4: 0': General: General Laiso n ma i nta i n ed' it'st rit- t on. In short, every Officer and soldier 1 1 '!, „et with bravery and e ntbu s i asm . I ; N il! ,s:',11" /DO! statement of the rewards to be g i ve n to 111 ' 0 ,,ttc' E army of Portugal, which is anittis,ted by cievO:ipn for the sehice of thel.,:iipervr: uoso o? I au), &C. &C.